The first princess Mario saved was Nintendo itself. In 1981, Nintendo of America was a one-year-old business already on the brink of failure. Its president, Mino Arakawa, was stuck with two thousand unsold arcade cabinets for a dud of a game (Radar Scope). So he hatched a plan. Back in Japan, a boyish, shaggy-haired staff artist named Shigeru Miyam...

Nintendo is a worldwide innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment. This fascinating look at one of Japan's most successful global companies, Nintendo: Playing to Wiin traces the company's humble origins to its stunning success with the DS and Wii consoles.

Fusajiro Yamauchi — founder of Nintendo The founder of a company is often an
entrepreneur — someone who sees an opportunity in the market and starts a
company to meet that opportunity. Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai
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In this lavishly illustrated full-color retrospective, discover never-before-seen photos that bring to life the people and stories behind the most popular games of all time, including Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, SimCity, Quake, Myst, Tomb Raider, and more. This is the inside scoop on the history, successes, tricks, a...

Mariners majority owner Hiroshi Yamauchi has died in Japan at age 85. Yamauchi was the patriarch of video games company Nintendo Corp. and owned an estimated 10 percent of its worldwide holdings. Yamauchi also held a 55 percent stake in a Mariners club he purchased back in 1992, along with a group of minority investors […]